One Sentence that Ruined Star Wars

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The final installment of the Skywalker Saga, "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker," aimed to conclude a beloved franchise but ultimately fell short. The film introduced a controversial plot twist, revealing Rey's lineage as a Palpatine, a decision that divided fans and critics alike. But you can narrow down the filmns shortcomings to one sentence: when Kylio Ren revealed to Rey (and the audience) that she was a Palpatine. Here's why that sentence still hurts.

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[JohnWilliams-njvl]

pretty dark ending that the Palpatines kill off all of the Skywalkers and then take their surname.

[Talen]

It still astounds me that the writers didn't have the entire Sequel Trilogy mapped out in stone before they started filming.

[musicalaviator]

The First order being a tiny hidden in the background faction that wasn't even interacting with the new Republic in The Force Awakens, to a gurilla war that the larger galaxy was ignoring in the Last Jedi to "The empire that runs the whole galaxy" in The Rise of Skywalker with no explanation is... whatever the opposite of world-building is.

[HoustonSoto]

Even stepping back from how utterly terrible the decision was to connect Palpatine and Rey in the first place — the line itself is ridiculous. There has only ever been ONE Palpatine in the saga. When I heard JJ say Star Wars has always been a story about “Skywalkers and Palpatines”, my stomach turned. Why pluralize Palpatine’s name? His family has NEVER been a focal point. Even in the initial expanded books, his parents were just rich people that he couldn’t stand. They make it seem like he’s had this vast family tree that intersects with the Skywalkers like they were royal houses in Dune or Game of Thrones. The Emperor was ALWAYS singular.

[Jiu-JitsuJourney]

Finn being a former storm trooper to lightsaber wielding hero would have been perfect. But he got relegated to screaming “REYYYY” for 3 movies.

[christasimon]

23:35 I have always compared the last movie "The Rise of Skywalker" to a 9-year-old trying to be the dungeonmaster for a tabletop D&D game: "Oh, wait, wait! Then _this_ happens!" Trying to enthrall the players with poorly contrived storytelling instead of inviting them to play the game. "Oh, no! Wait, then THIS happens!" Trying for bigger reveals, all the while being ridiculous incoherent events that don't even make sense for the storyline.

[peterc]

The "even a nobody can become a hero" was right there with a force sensitive Finn. They could have gave us both but no clear oversight on all 3 films fucked it all up

[ericfaz]

How KK still has a job after not storyboarding this trilogy with any sort of continuity astounds me.

[gdfrend]

fellow Star Wars cynic here. Asking Rey to be “a character, not a product”, “a person, not intellectual property” goes against everything Disney stands for (namely profit). Disney’s 3 buggest blunders so far, in my opinion: Rey Palpatine, bringing back Grogu less than a year after the BEAUTIFUL Mando S2 finale, Acolytes.

[williamjohnston]

Kylo Ren: 'Rey...you're a Chewbacca.'

(Just as ridiculous as being a Palpatine)

[ketdog]

The bully who said you're a nobody now says you're one of Palpatine's tadpoles, and he wants you to join the darkside... mmm yeah, seems trustworthy

[timsbird]

The sentence that messed up the sequels was "Let's ignore the outlines George wrote and leave him out of the process - we know what people want".

[classic.cameras]

Worst element of Disney Star Wars was not having Luke, Leia and Han in the same scene together. THAT IS WHAT WE WANTED!

[gibberishname]

The biggest flaw in this argument is 24:42 JJ Abrams does _not_ make good movies. He’s actually quite bad at it.

[EdertheJust]

They did Finn the dirtiest. He was a stormtrooper who had the force. Great character we haven't seen before. Then we find out there are tons of stormtroopers with the force.

[louistully]

this video reminds me just how awful and unwatchable the sequels are

[zenenzarcon]

I loved the idea of Rey Nobody tbh, it felt like the message was the Force had started to choose people to balance things again.
And in a meta way it said to all viewers, everyone has the potential to be someone special, you don't HAVE to be from some lineage of sand haters or what not, you can be some kid from the slum and just develop your own Force Powers, go ham with your own stories from there!

It really could have reinvigorated a love for Star Wars in a way that I don't think they'll ever have the chance to again

[thecunninlynguist]

The dead speak! that single sentence ruined even more an already doomed trilogy.

[Ptaaruonn]

Also the fact that they didn't put the whole old gang inside the falcon at least once was a super stupid missed opportunity.

[KyloRenRadio]

For me, as a woman in Star Wars fandom (and fandom in general) "you don't just have power, you have HIS power" is the most insulting line in TROS: a giant FU to everyone who loved Rey Nobody.